I can breathe.....

(This was a draft from the beginning of December 2012)

Wow- what a bad blog year for this chick right here. I slacked... BAAAAD. November was super busy for me- business was GREAT- but I was trying to manage a full time job AND be a stay at home mom. That is TOUGH. Luckily the girls go to MDO- that was my saving grace... however, my mommy role was still lacking. I am so glad I am caught up with editing and can enjoy the rest of the year. I really don't like to complain about work- I LOVE what I do, seriously. And trust me.... come January, I'll be itching to have some sessions on the books--- because I'll miss it. :) Here's just some stuff from November. Lots of families and adorable kids! (and beautiful ladies!)
As for the girls- boy are they growing up. As I walked out of a store with Kallie holding my hand a couple days ago, I almost got teary-eyed. Kensley was at MDO.... all I could think about was how fast time is going. Kensley will be in KINDERGARDEN next year. AH! WHERE has time gone with that beautiful little girl?! I still can't believe it. It makes me want to hold her back another year (because, well, we could if we wanted to.) Kallie- she's just grown up so much since MDO started in August. Talking up a storm. And I love it. She loves to say "I a big girl, Mommy". I'm going to try to get a lot of video footage to document all these moments.... all the funny pronunciations of words.... all the confusion involved with trying to figure out what they want to say but just can't figure out the words... all of it. I want them to stay this little forever.


The video above is from tonight. Kensley has 101 fever. Poor girl. I hope it's just a quick virus- no other symptoms. She's been lounging around all day but noticed I got my camera out to video Kallie- so she had to join in, too :)


I recently shot a boudoir marathon (SO much fun!) but I dropped my camera. I had to have my camera fixed--- and my lens bit the dust. It does work... a little. But it's almost not worth dealing with. So I just leave my 100mm on- which, if you don't know what that is- it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to use indoors. SO- what does that mean? I don't have a lens that I can take pictures of the girls inside with--- so I can't use my good camera! :( A lens is on the top of my list for Christmas. Hopefully Santa will be nice to me and bring me one! It tears me up thinking I'll have to take my Christmas pictures this year with my point and shoot. lol - I'll be ok, though. With all of that said- here's some pictures from tonight- I had to go hunt down my external flash so I could take some pictures of the girls (see? it's been FOREVER since I've just taken pictures of the girls playing.... it makes me sad!)


Ripley has adjusted to the family very well. The girls just love him. He loves the girls. He loves playing chase with them--- but he has a mean little bite! and puppies LOVE to chew! Whew.

McCoy is the same-o. Great, fabulous, loving dog. Man we're lucky.


We are having a Christmas party for Kensley and Kallie's friends.... Santa is going to make an appearance...They'll be thrilled! (hopefully we won't have any crying babies!) ;)  This next week is my last week of non-crazy days..... I'm going to try relax and enjoy it. There's some things I have to get ready- but not much. Class parties begin the next week--- and then it's Christmas! And then our ski trip!!! It's been a great 2012.

Just some of the girls...

We had fun yesterday ;)

Been over to my photography blog lately?

I just posted a new senior! She's gorgeous!

Weekend fun with the kids

Last weekend two of my friends from college came with their kids to hang out for the weekend. We had a blast! It was so good to catch up with them (we keep in touch via facebook but it was nice to be "in person") ;) Casey got in town around lunch on Friday. The kids played great together- the girls made cookies that afternoon then we played, jumped in the bounce house and headed to the park until dark. Kallie LOOOOOOVED Levi. Heck, she and Kensley both did.... but Kallie was SO sweet to him. Wanted to love and kiss and hug on him. We'll have to have them over more often.... if only they weren't so far away!

*it still amazes me at how good kids are with the ipads/iphones! It's crazy!



Making Cookies










Bedtime was late- Kensley didn't give up until around 11:30! And she was up EARLY. Like, 6:45am. Insane. She and Kallie were both up by 6:45. Mandi and Corbin got there late Friday night- he stayed up with us for a while :)





We finally ended up going to bed at 2. I'm not use to that! I was exhausted! But it was a lot of fun sitting and talking about our college days. Some of the best times of our lives!



So we were all up early (Casey actually got to sleep later than us- BOO! ;)

We finally headed into Austin later in the morning. We took the girls to the park and played. Then we had lunch with the pigeons. Sounds nice, huh? Yea, gross. They were EVERYWHERE. The girls had a blast running through them yelling and screaming. It was funny. Luckily nobody got pooped on.






After lunch, we headed into downtown to grab some lunch for the adults and get some one year shots of Corbin. He is ADORABLE. Like, seriously. Love him!




We got home and Casey decided to gather up and head on back so they didn't have to get up Sunday morning. The girls got to jump one last time in the bounce house and run around and play. We were so happy they got to come!




After they left, Mandi and I visited while the girls played with Corbin. We rode around the neighborhood and ordered Pizza. The girls love pizza, so dinner was a hit. Bedtime was EARLY. Well, earlier than the night before- ha! Oh, I almost left an "event" out from our weekend. Friday night we put all three girls in the tub to play and bathe them. Casey and I sat and visited while they laughed/splashed/played in the tub- for a good 45 minutes. I finally went in there to check on them so we could start bathing..... I saw something dark in there- I asked Cori what it was- she picked it up and told me there were rocks in the tub. AHHH! Kallie had POOPED in the tub. So they'd been playing in the water (and with the "rocks") for a while.... not sure it was 45 minutes- but it was a while. NASTY! We took them downstairs and washed them down and I bleached the toys and cleaned the tub. Ugh. Gross. Well....... Saturday night...... it was just Kensley & Kallie in the tub. Guess what? Kallie pooped AGAIN! It wasn't as much as the previous night, but still. Gross. so yea, hope she got all that out of her. I get tired of cleaning the tub and toys every night!
....back to the story..... kids went down early and we sat and watched TV and hung out with a glass of wine. Yummy!





Sunday was pretty uneventful. We got up and ate breakfast and Mandi packed up- they left later in the morning and my girls got comfy upstairs and watched a movie (Kallie fell asleep for a while). Needless to say, it was a GREAT weekend and everyone was exhausted! I think I'm still recovering from my 2am bedtime on Friday! haha